Ahead of Her Time: Abby Kelley and the Politics of Antislavery“[The author] tells this remarkable story with honesty and compassion. Readers will find a wealth of new information not only about Kelley’s outstanding contribution to abolitionism but about the movements to bring about the end of slavery and to advance the cause of women.” —Mari Jo Buhle, Brown University In the tumultuous years before the Civil War, a young white woman from a Quaker background came to embody commitment to the cause of antislavery and equal rights for black people. Abby Kelley became the abolitionist movement’s chief money-raiser and organizer and its most radial member. She traveled hundreds of miles to awaken the country to the evils of slavery, braving hardship and prejudice as well as opening the way for other women, black and white, to take leadership roles. Now the full story of this principled woman has been told in Dorothy Sterling’s compelling biography. |
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... friend and dangerous adversary, she was sharptongued and intense, tough and implacable—and charming, loving, and ... friends, and visiting reformers. At the end of the Civil War she recognized that emancipation brought about by force ...
... friend and dangerous adversary, she was sharptongued and intense, tough and implacable—and charming, loving, and ... friends, and visiting reformers. At the end of the Civil War she recognized that emancipation brought about by force ...
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... friends criticized my “desertion” of my children. I shared her pain at leaving her daughter and cheered on her efforts to provide love and guidance at a distance. Today, in a different time, “humanitymongering” is out of fashion, but I ...
... friends criticized my “desertion” of my children. I shared her pain at leaving her daughter and cheered on her efforts to provide love and guidance at a distance. Today, in a different time, “humanitymongering” is out of fashion, but I ...
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... Friends. A birthright Quaker, Diana was born in Uxbridge in 1774, one of the six children of Ruth and David Daniels. She married Wing Kelley in 1799.2 In a memoir written after Abby's death, her daughter ascribed her cheerfulness ...
... Friends. A birthright Quaker, Diana was born in Uxbridge in 1774, one of the six children of Ruth and David Daniels. She married Wing Kelley in 1799.2 In a memoir written after Abby's death, her daughter ascribed her cheerfulness ...
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... Friends” faced the congregation. Quakers scorned a paid clergy—“hireling ministers” they called them—but Friends who consistently “felt a call to speak” were acknowledged as ministers and authorized to address meetings other than their ...
... Friends” faced the congregation. Quakers scorned a paid clergy—“hireling ministers” they called them—but Friends who consistently “felt a call to speak” were acknowledged as ministers and authorized to address meetings other than their ...
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... had no high school for girls, and Wing Kelley could not afford to send her to a private female seminary. However, the New England Friends Yearly Meeting had established a boarding school in Providence, Rhode Island, where.
... had no high school for girls, and Wing Kelley could not afford to send her to a private female seminary. However, the New England Friends Yearly Meeting had established a boarding school in Providence, Rhode Island, where.
Contents
The Education of Abby Kelley 2 A Wider World | |
Women Find Their Voices | |
The Call | |
A PublicSpeaking Woman 6 War to the Knifes Point | |
The Notorious Abby Kelley | |
A New Hampshire Fanatic | |
Lord What a Tongue Shes | |
Conflicting Claims | |
Bloody Feet Sisters | |
General Agent | |
The Irrepressible Conflict | |
Nothing Is Done While Anything Remains to Be Done | |
A Lonely Rocket in a Dark | |
Notes Selected Bibliography | |
Along the Psychic Highway | |
Antislavery Politics | |
The Path of True Love and Other Matters | |
Acknowledgments | |
Index | |
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